Editing Mark Shainblum

{{short description|Canadian writer (born 1963)}}
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'''Mark Shainblum''' (born 1963 in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]]) is a Canadian writer who now lives in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], Canada. Though he has worked as a journalist and editor, Shainblum is best known as a science fiction and comic book writer.

==Early life==

In the early 1980s, Shainblum published two issues of a comics and [[science fiction fanzine]] called ''Orion: The Canadian Magazine of Time and Space'', and later founded Matrix Graphic Series (later known as Matrix Comics), one of only a handful of independent comic book publishers in Canada at the time.

==Career==
His published works include:

*''[[Northguard]]'', a post-modern Canadian [[superhero]], created in the 1980s with illustrator [[Gabriel Morrissette]]. Though Northguard was published as an independent comic book series and didn't achieve the notoriety of better-known Canadian superheroes like [[Richard Comely]]'s ''[[Captain Canuck]]'' or [[Marvel Comics]]' ''[[Alpha Flight]]'', it was well received by critics and a core following of fans. The Quebec superheroine [[Fleur de Lys (superhero)|Fleur-de-Lys]], a supporting character from the series, even made her way to a Canadian postage stamp in 1995.
*''Angloman'', co-created with [[Gabriel Morrissette]]. A humorous parody of politics in Shainblum's native province of Quebec, Angloman was first published in book form and then made the leap to two Montreal newspapers, the alternative newsweekly ''[[Montreal Mirror]]'' and the mass-circulation daily ''[[Montreal Gazette]]''.

With John Dupuis, Shainblum afor lso co-edited the 1998 short story collection ''Arrowdreams: An Anthology of Alternate Canadas'', which garnered a [[Prix Aurora Awards|Prix Aurora Award]] for Canadian science fiction in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.prixaurorawards.ca/aurora-awards/past-winners/ |title=Past Winners &#124; Aurora Awards |access-date=17 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407232810/http://www.prixaurorawards.ca/aurora-awards/past-winners/ |archive-date=7 April 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Shainblum was also a finalist in the 2001 international Mark Twain Writing Competition and recently published a story in [[Claude Lalumière]]'s anthology ''[[Island Dreams]]: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic'' from [[Véhicule Press]]. In 2002–03, he served as president of [[SF Canada]], Canada's national association of science fiction and fantasy authors. In 2017, he was nominated for the 2017 Aurora Awards for "Best Related Work" for "Superhero Universe: Tesseracts Nineteen."<ref>{{Cite web |last=admin |date=2017-09-25 |title=2017 Aurora Awards Winners |url=https://locusmag.com/2017/09/2017-aurora-awards-winners/ |access-date=2023-08-14 |website=Locus Online |language=en-US}}</ref> He co-authored this book with  Claude Lalumière. <ref>{{Cite web |last=admin |date=2017-09-25 |title=2017 Aurora Awards Winners |url=https://locusmag.com/2017/09/2017-aurora-awards-winners/ |access-date=2023-08-14 |website=Locus Online |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Awards==
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==Current projects==
Shainblum is collaborating on two webcomics projects: with artist [[Sandy Carruthers]] on a super-hero genre [[webcomic]] project entitled [[Canadiana (comics)|Canadiana]], and on a mystery serial, ''The Haunting of MacGrath'' with artist Jeff Alward. He also works as a communications and media relations professional.

==See also==
* [[List of Canadian comics creators|Canadian Comics Creators]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official|http://shainblum.com}}
*[http://www.angloman.com Angloman website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050920210158/http://www.collectionscanada.ca/superheroes/ Guardians of the North]: a virtual museum tour through the history of Canadian superheroes, hosted by the Digital Library of Canada.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050827074636/http://www.sandycarruthers.com/canadiana.html Canadiana: the New Spirit of Canada]: a serialized super-hero webcomic by Mark Shainblum, Sandy Carruthers and Jeff Alward
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